The Liquid Continent: Venice : A Mediterranean Triology - Couverture rigide

Woodsworth, Nicholas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1905791453 ISBN 13 : 9781905791453

Editeur : Haus Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

"The Liquid Continent," whose three volumes can be read independently, combines travel narrative, history and reflection on the contemporary Mediterranean. Beginning in Alexandria, the author travels overland around the eastern rim of the sea. Wherever he goes he finds traces of an older, sophisticated existence; he soon comes to see the great eastern ports as the globalized cities of an age when the Mediterranean was the centre of the known world. It leads him to the realization that our own version of globalization is not the only one possible. In the people and places of Alexandria he encounters not one great past, but two: the world of Cleopatra and Ptolomaic learning, symbolized by Alexandria's ancient library and lighthouse, and a more recent, highly cosmopolitan city, built on 20th century trade and destroyed by Nasser's socialist revolution.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Published to critical acclaim in 2008, Nicholas Woodsworth's Mediterranean Trilogy is now available in a single paperback edition. Combining travel narrative, history and reflection on contemporary Mediterranean life, the author begins in Alexandria, before visiting Venice and Istanbul. In all these cities, he finds traces of an older, more sophisticated existence and asks what these cities and their inhabitants owe to the see.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Haus Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1905791453
• ISBN 13: 9781905791453
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 282